UK BAP priority
herptile species

A list of UK BAP priority herptile (amphibian and reptile)
species, created between 1995 and 1999, and subsequently updated in
response to the Species and
Habitats Review Report (PDF, 1.3Mb), published in 2007,
is provided in the table below. The table also
provides details of the species' occurrences in the four UK
countries, and describes whether the species was an 'original'
species (on the original list created between 1995 and 1999), or
was added following the 2007 review. All original
species were provided with Species Action Plans (SAPs), species
statements, or are included within grouped plans or
statements, whereas there are no published plans for the
species added in 2007.

UK BAP priority species were those that were identified as being
the most threatened and requiring conservation action under the UK
Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP). However, as a result of
devolution, and new country-level and international drivers and
requirements, much of the work previously carried out by the UK BAP
is now focussed at a country-level rather than a UK-level, and the
UK BAP was succeeded by the 'UK
Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework' in July 2012. The UK
list of priority species, however, remains an important reference
source and has been used to help draw up statutory lists of
priority species in
England, Northern
Ireland,
Scotland and Wales.

Current scientific names and commonly used synonyms derive from
the Nameserver facility of the UK Species
Dictionary, which is managed by the Natural History
Museum. More detailed information about the distribution and
taxonomy of these species can be found using the NBN
Gateway, and details of the original Species Action Plans
(SAPs), generated between 1995 and 1999, can be found on the
original (archived) UK BAP website, or on
the BARS
1 website, which was archived in April 2012 following the
launch of BARS 2.

JNCC have collated already-published information from a
variety of sources for all of the UK BAP priority species, to bring
these data together into a single report, or 'species
account'. All of this information is already
available on either the JNCC website, the NBN
Gateway, or the
BARS 1 website. Each individual species account can
be accessed by selecting the name in the table below, or
through the priority
species accounts spreadsheet. For more detail about the
information within the species accounts, visit the Priority species accounts page>>.